TinMen is revolutionising the corporate lunch scene, with home-cooked goodness

TinMen, a Hyderabad based home food delivery app is transforming the everyday corporate lunch scene in the city, by delivering home-cooked food, that instantly transports you back home with every meal.

Mukesh Manda and Chaitanya Degala, started TinMen in August 2015, when tired of canteen and restaurant food, they realised the gaping need for home-cooked food in the corporate landscape of the city. TinMen isn’t just about providing homemade food, but enabling the consumers to relive their memory of opening the dabba at recess and getting engulfed in the aroma of their maa ke haath ka khana. A typical homemade meal is an assurance of taste, quality and good health, and TinMen is created around these very aspects, delivering only the best to its consumers.

Ensuring Quality:

Quality of food takes the centre attention and numerous aspects are taken care of to provide the best to customers. Freshness is ensured by placing the orders with the chefs the night before the delivery, so all the meals are cooked on the day of the delivery. Also, the packaging is leak proof and microwaveable. The user can choose from a vast, delectable range of homemade dishes, over multiple cuisines. An average meal has rice, phulka, sabzi and dal making it a wholesome meal. In addition to this, the app has features to add on curd and cut fruit.

“Absolutely wonderful.. my first day trying your food options and the food was almost like home food. Love you guys…” Mithun Shirur, Utopia Global Inc.

Cost effectiveness

Homemade food, by the very nature of it, is expected to be economic. TinMen ensures just that, by starting its meals at just Rs 65/-. With this, ordering everyday becomes affordable and economical even.

TinMen empowers passionate home chefs who are looking for flexible ways to earn. Home Chefs can apply, and on successfully completing due formalities, are featured on the app with their very own menu. Chefs can display their skills and unique recipes, true to where they are from.

Since orders are placed the previous day, this ensures that chefs receive estimates beforehand – they cook just the right amount, leaving no room for wastage.

“I first got to know about TinMen through my sister’s friend. It has almost been one and a half years since I have started my journey with the app. Honestly, I feel that this is a best option for mothers who work from home. Also I have learnt to cook new dishes over the time.

Few popular dishes that I make are methi paratha and aloo matar which are on Tuesdays menu, and paneer Burji which is on Wednesdays menu. I would definitely recommend becoming a chef at TinMen to people I know.” Anushree, North Indian Home Chef

Easy ordering, hassle free delivery

The user-friendly app enables the consumers to place their orders in few simple steps, along with options to stop, or pause the deliveries of any pre-ordered meals. Once the user has chosen the meals for the entire week, the deliveries happen hassle-free through the week, without having to make any follow-ups. The food arrives on the same time every day.

TinMen also caters to the larger goal of bridging the gap between passionate home chefs and a large population of the city looking for healthy homemade food options. Today, TinMen delivers, on an average, 1200 orders/day. It also has over 40 registered chefs, that provide a range of cuisines from Bengali, Andhra, Tamil, to Jain, Marathi, North Indian, Rajasthani and Continental options. Having started with just corporate deliveries, TinMen has now expanded to provide lunch and dinners to residential spaces too, and delivers in Gachibowli, Financial District, Kondapur, Hitec City, Madhapur, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Punjagutta, Begumpet, Miyapur, Chandanagar, Kukatpally and KPHB.

Startups generally celebrate every small reason, But if the reason is about a milestone achievement then it makes a big difference. This victorious path is not an easier one and we have faced and surpassed many challenges in the last few months to meet our target of half a million visitors. While our ambition is a much bigger number, the target we achieved was planned towards the end of the financial year and our team made it possible 4 months in advance.

Indeed a great effort by Shishir Kumar and the entire team and a special thanks to the avid readers of IndianCEO for following us. IndianCEO is indeed my first bet in to media business and believe me this is just the beginning. Early next year we have some great product announcements and our next milestone is not far away.